Australian beef has replaced U.S. supply in China since Donald Trump returned to the White House, funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars that have in previous years gone to the U.S. cattle industry into Australian pockets.

U.S. shipments to China, worth around $120 million a month, collapsed after Beijing in March allowed permits to expire at hundreds of American meat facilities and as Trump unleashed a tit-for-tat tariff war.

Other U.S. farm exports to China, the world’s biggest food importer, have also suffered since Trump retook power. On soybeans alone, U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars during the current harvest season.

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    20 hours ago

    So in the past couple of weeks, MAGA has been Make Argentina Great Again and now Make Australia Great Again.

    I wonder what Trump is gonna fuck up next week so that Azerbaijan can swoop in to start selling to China.

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      Australian here.

      I just thought you’d be interested to know that the nutty is kind of leaking.

      Thankfully they are very few, but we do have some MAGA Trump supporters here, and yes they occasionally say “make australia great again”. Its so shameless.

      I live in a place called albany, and yes on precisely one occasion I’ve seen someone say make albany great again.

      We’re having a local council election. About a third of the candidates are dickheads with no chance of getting up, and yes they include things like anti-woke and anti-DEI in their bios.

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        An American friend played a season of football for Albany. And another played for Mt Barker.